A common workflow for restaurants and wineries is to let customers reserve tables for a certain length of time in a staggered manner. This tutorial explains how to set this up in Easy Appointment Booking.
Here is a simple example to demonstrate the concept. Let’s say you have:
3 tables in your restaurant or winery.
Your business opens at 9am and closes at 12pm.
For simplicity, let’s assume you are only open on Mondays.
Each customer can book a table for 90 minutes.
You want to stagger reservations by 15minutes. This means once a booking happens at 9AM, the next booking for the next available table must be 15minutes later at 9:15AM. This gives your staff time to setup.
In this scenario, here’s how you would set it up.
First, create an event. Set the duration to be 90 minutes.
Create an availability for each table that you have. In this case, you would create 3 availabilities:
Table A
Table B
Table C
For each availability, set your daily schedule to be staggered.
For Table A, set Mondays to
9:00-10:30, 9:45-11:15, 10:30-12:00, 12:00-13:30For Table B, set Mondays to
9:15-10:45, 10:00-11:30, 10:45-12:15, 12:15-13:45For Table C, set Mondays to
9:30-11:00, 10:15-11:45, 11:00-12:30, 12:30-14:00
When editing your event, set the start time increments to 15 minutes.
By setting your availability in this way, a timeslot that will show up every 15-minutes with alternating tables.
9:00AM (with Table A)
9:15AM (with Table B)
9:30AM (with Table C)
9:45AM (with Table A)
10:00AM (with Table B)
10:30AM (with Table C)
10:30AM (With Table A)
10:45AM (with Table B)
11:00AM (with Table C)
12:00PM (with Table A)
12:15PM (with Table B)
12:30PM (with Table C)
If Table A is booked at 9:00am, it will be removed at 9:45AM, but will still be available at 10:30AM.
🗣 If you would like us to help you set up staggered availabilities for your table reservations, chat with us in the app or email us at hey@getservicify.com